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050 00 $aHM141$b.C275 1996
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100 1 $aCarlton, Eric.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88259266
245 14 $aThe few and the many :$ba typology of elites /$cEric Carlton.
260 $aAldershot, England ;$aBrookfield, Vt. :$bScolar Press,$c1996.
263 $a9606
300 $a225 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Theories of Elites --$g1.$tElitism by Birth: The Hindu Caste System --$g2.$tElitism by Class: Social Differentiation in Classical Greece --$g3.$tElitism by Selection: Byzantine Bureaucracy --$g4.$tElitism by Race: Europeans and the Indians of Colonial America --$g5.$tElitism by Moral Right: Europeans and Early Colonial Contacts --$g6.$tElitism by Special Election: The Millenarian Phenomenon --$g7.$tElitism by Conquest: The Tragedy of Cambodia --$g8.$tElitism by Ecclesiastical Authority: The Church and Medieval Heresy --$g9.$tElitism by Sex: The Gender Issue --$g10.$tElitism by Party: National Socialism in Germany 1920-45 --$g11.$tElitism by Economic Status: The Western 'Models' Problem --$g12.$tElitism by Culture: The Mass Culture Debate --$g13.$tElitism by Education: The Status of Science Issue.
520 $aSocial scientists are concerned with elites of many kinds - bureaucracies, military oligarchies, political leaders and the like. The study of elites is characterized by a certain suspicion, and the tone of the enquirer's description and discussion of such groups is often sceptical, if not actually hostile.
520 8 $aWhile not simply an attempt to redress the balance, this book is intended to provide the reader with a fair idea of the nature and variety of elites and to offer some explanations as to why societies over a remarkably wide range of time, space and economic development have a structure in which a small group exercises a disproportionate power over the great mass of their fellows.
520 8 $aThe first section deals with theoretical approaches to elites and elitism, summarizing and criticizing work from Plato and Weber, Popper and Bottomore. The second section consists of a number of historical and contemporary case studies ranging from classical Athens to late twentieth-century Western Society, which individually and in combination illustrate and amplify the theoretical material. The final section draws together the main arguments in the form of a critique and conclusions.
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85042580
650 0 $aElite (Social sciences)$vCase studies.
852 00 $bleh$hHM141$i.C275 1996